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In Which Pigs Take Flight

Charles Krauthammer, speaking and joshing on a panel about the coming presidency with fellow Fox-friendly commentators Fred Barnes and Mort... More

Chris Matthews Strikes Again

I'd thought Chris Matthews, via his excitement over the election of Barack Obama, was currently filled with Hope. But apparently... More

Crash

A loaded term with no place in today’s river-landing coverage

The salient fact of this afternoon's Hudson River water landing is that it involved no casualties. So far, US Airways... More

Breaking: Passenger Jet in the Hudson

There is currently a commercial airplane in New York City's Hudson River (it looks to be a small regional jet,... More

Johnny Jones 2.0

It’s not just financial: GlobalPost offers a new editorial model, too

Journalists, these days, have little reason for cheer. At a time when Romenesko's updates increasingly read as real-time obituaries for... More

The Atlantic v. NYT: the Times responds

The New York Times has issued a letter to The Atlantic's editor in response to Michael Hirschorn's controversial The-Times-May-Stop-Printing-by-May article.... More

Hardball

A veteran sports columnist meets—and shrugs off—Internet outrage

Corky Simpson is seventy years old. As if to prove it, he refers to himself as “a stubborn old mule”... More

Who’s Gonna Write Your Wild Horses?

So, it's now official: Bono, long rumored to be replacing Bill Kristol on The New York Times's op-ed page, has... More

How to Save the Times!

In response to The Atlantic's controversial New York Times Deathwatch column, the deep journalistic thinkers at 23/6 have formulated the... More

The Meeting of the Minds

Editor & Publisher provides the transcript of the intellectual discussion that took place earlier this week between Bill O'Reilly and... More

Apocalypse Now

The Times will die in May! But not really!

Plague. Pestilence. Stopped presses. Hold onto your horsemen, folks: It's the end of times! Or, at least, the end of... More

Sweet Charity

Seeing as how the government's in the bailout business these days, there's been talk--both serious and facetious--of the media industry's... More

Media Mattered

Eric Alterman moves his Altercation blog over to the The Nation. More

Wonders of the Web, Part 1,437: Crowd-Sourced Inauguration Speech

Are you one of those people who, when confronted with a "What profession, other than your own, would you most... More

Under Presser

Okay, maybe it was “the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter.” Is that really a story?

It's a pattern familiar to the point of cliché: an international crisis—or, to be slightly more precise, a crisis that... More

Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism

“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”

‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’

Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?

The story behind one of the best business models in the country

What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas

“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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